Lafayette Manor: Safety Hazards, Supervision Gaps - PA
The resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident R1, was found sitting by a time clock in the basement of Lafayette Manor on the night of January 6, 2026. She had last been seen around 9:10 p.m. By 9:30, when a nurse aide went to complete an inventory sheet and check on her, she was gone.
"I looked in the bathroom she wasn't in there I checked residents room she wasn't there I then yelled and said resident is missing," the aide wrote in a statement dated January 7. "I ran back upstairs to get my phone because its pitch dark outside."
The aide checked a laundry room, fire exits used for storage, small rooms that were unlocked, and the perimeter of the building before returning inside. Staff had already found the resident downstairs.
After the resident was located, a charge nurse ordered a full head count. All residents were accounted for.
The facility launched a correction plan the same day. Staff received elopement prevention training. A Wanderguard security bracelet, which triggers an alert when a resident approaches a monitored door, was applied to Resident R1. Her care plan was updated to document the elopement, her risk of doing it again, and the interventions now in place. The facility also planned to install concave mirrors and committed to auditing admissions five times a week for a month.
By January 28, when inspectors returned and interviewed a dozen staff members, nurses confirmed they had received the required training. The nursing home administrator and director of nursing confirmed to inspectors that the facility had failed to provide adequate supervision to prevent the elopement.
The inspection was filed as a complaint. Harm was classified as minimal, affecting few residents. The aide's account describes something harder to classify: a woman sitting alone in a dark basement, while the person responsible for her safety was outside, running.
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LAFAYETTE MANOR, INC in UNIONTOWN, PA was cited for violations during a health inspection on January 29, 2026.
She had last been seen around 9:10 p.m.
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